The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California

by Joshua Page

Book Overview

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise of one of the most politically potent and feared interest groups in the nation: the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). As it made...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199985073
• ISBN13: 9780199985074
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"